Many of the great enduring works of art are such because when we revisit them, they meet us at exactly where we are at that time. The context for revisiting the stellar 1999 Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman—streamed directly into our homes, which most viewers have not left in over seven months—set the stage for an intensely personal experience that resonated in new and unexpected frequencies.

The production is led by Brian Dennehy as a hulking Willy Loman, attempting to throw his weight around but falling apart at the seams, and Elizabeth Franz as Linda Loman, playing her as the polar opposite of Dennehy's Willy—physically, in temperament, and in stability. The cast is rounded out by Ron Eldard as failed golden man-boy Biff, Ted Koch as Happy (the “and Peggy!” or Zeppo—depending on your cultural reference of choice), and Howard Witt as Charlie,...

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